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Nikole Hannah-Jones Receives Tenure Offer From UNC After Backlash

Her 1619 Project is at the center of a political battle over what students can learn about race in America. Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees voted on Wednesday to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones after initially delaying the customary job protection for the incoming journalism professor, who is best known for her award-winning work reexamining how slavery shaped the United States’ founding. The board’s vice chair, R. Gene Davis Jr., who was among those who voted to offer tenure to Hannah-Jones, said that UNC “is not a place to cancel people or ideas. Neither is it a place for judging people and calling them names, like woke or racist.” “In this moment at our university, in our state, and in our nati...

What Is Academic Tenure – And Why It Matters

George Justice, Arizona State University How would you like a job that was guaranteed and allowed you to do your work as you see fit and speak your mind with no repercussions? Most people would, and that’s the idea behind academic tenure. In the following Q&A, George Justice, an English professor and author of “How to Be a Dean,” explains the origin of tenure and the waning protections that it affords professors who have it. What is academic tenure? Of all the things a university professor can achieve in their career, few are as desirable as academic tenure. Academic tenure is a system of strong job protections that virtually guarantees a university professor will never be fired or let go except in the most extreme of circumstances. A key idea is to allow faculty to speak freely – w...

UNC Board To Reexamine Tenure For Nikole Hannah-Jones

The board’s initial decision to give the award-winning journalist a five-year contract, not tenure, reflects a politicization of state university boards that could affect recruiting, learning and equity. Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees will again weigh whether to grant incoming professor Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure after an outcry over their decision to not give her the customary job protection, and whether it was related to her journalistic work reexamining how slavery shaped the United States’ founding. The faculty committee that evaluates personnel and tenure matters resubmitted to the board this week its recommendation that Hannah-Jones receive tenure, the board’s chair has confirmed. Though it is ...